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International tourism is an important foreign exchange earner and an export for many low income countries as well as … tourism as a potential strategic factor to development and economic growth. The tourism-led economic growth hypothesis (TLGH …) postulates that tourism expansion leads to economic growth. It derives directly from the export-led growth hypothesis (ELGH …
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In this paper we describe the evolution of the cruise tourism industry and we analyze different impacts on tourism …
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activities related with the tourism and the behavior of a local population. We answer two questions: 1) Suppose that the central … tourist activities? So we analyze the situation when it's possible to obtain a sustainable tourism in a country such that the … tourism is the main economic activity …
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The main objective of this paper is to analyze the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Central American and … capita as a measure of economic growth. This will then be disaggregated into a growth component attributable to tourism and a … generating a performance measure of tourism’s past contribution to economic growth, will be applied to the period 1990-2007. We …
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This paper investigates residents' preferences towards cruise tourism investment in their home port. The research uses … logit analysis is run to analyse what factors influence the residents' preferences towards investment in cruise tourism …
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This research analyses the influence of perceived authenticity of Christmas Markets and their products on shopping expenditure. The quantitative analysis was conducted based on 1275 self-administered questionnaires collected among event attendees in three different Northern Italian Christmas...
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The aim of this study is to analyze the economic impact of the Biathlon World Cup 2009 in Antholz-Anterselva. The survey concentrates on the immediate, direct and short-term additional revenue brought into the region by foreign sport event spectators. We first apply an expenditure-based...
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This study analyses cruise visitors' travel experience, their intention to return to a destination as land tourists and the probability to recommend. Consumer's satisfaction is evaluated by taking into account the economic production factors, that is human and physical capital. “Satisfaction...
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This short paper analyzes the effects in the long-run between tourism and the economic growth in the regions of … uses cointegration analysis to analyze the existence of VEC among real GDP per capita, tourism expenditures and real … elasticities are considerable different. Finally, we compare our study with similar papers also investigating the tourism …
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Considering the importance of market segmentation as a marketing tool to determine promotional policies, this paper aims, through an empirical application, to determine the optimal way to choose both the best cluster algorithm and the best cluster partition.For this purpose, an empirical study...
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